1020072 Brand Design Specialist

Experience Champaign Urbana; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Experience Champaign Urbana is seeking a Brand Designer to support the Brand Design Service. You will work with StratCom's social media team to craft engaging graphics for the university's main accounts and help review campus advertising campaigns with marketing teams.

You will provide design support for campus marketing communications, present work to clients, and collaborate with outside vendors such as photographers and printers.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to create branded designs for digital and print.
• Strong sense of typography and visual hierarchy.
• Experience collaborating with marketing and communications teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with StratCom's social media team to create engaging, timely graphics for main university accounts.
• Collaborate with marketing and media management to review campus advertising campaigns.
• Provide design support for university marketing communications to strengthen the brand.
• Present work to clients clearly and explain how creative responds to goals and audiences.
• Collaborate with outside vendors such as video producers, photographers, and printers as needed.
• Produce branded designs for digital and print and create web mockups for front-end implementation.
• Advance university brand standards through research of design trends.

Skills

Graphic design

Branding

UI/UX basics

Typography

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

Duties Responsibilities

Brand Design Service

• Work directly with StratCom's social media team to create engaging, timely graphics for the main university social media accounts.
• Work with StratCom's marketing and media management team to review and create campus advertising campaigns.
• Provide design support for marketing communications teams across campus to strengthen the university's brand.
• Present work to clients clearly and efficiently, helping them understand the creative response to the project's goals and audiences.
• Collaborate with outside vendors such as video producers, photographers and printers as needed.

Design and Problem Solving

• Work with the design team to produce branded designs for digital and print.
• Create visual interface design mockups for the web that show proof of concept and finalize them into high-quality completed screens for a front-end developer to implement.
• Work with the design team to advance university brand standards.
• Research trends in graphic design, typography, web design and more and implement in the brand and projects.